Jihad connectivity!

It's been getting harder and harder to find inspiration to work online lately, mainly because up until today my Internet connection has given new meaning to the word 'sucks'. Just loading the backend to publish content would take several minutes to get past the login screen at times and uploading videos would take forever. My connection is a shared wireless type, piggy-backing onto the Maclean Outdoors store connection, which is about 70 metres away and I have to admit to be surprised to get any connection at all. A wired connection at this house is impossible according to the telco overlords, despite the fact that the library next door has an ADSL2 connection.

So the other day a fit of rage overcame me and I ripped all of the cords from my notebook, flung them aside, picked up the laptop and just as I felt like throwing it out the window instead I walked around the house with it to see if there was an area that would provide a better connection. There was... in the storage room at the front of the house, which up until today was filled with back-up stock for the shop. One bar suddenly transformed into 4, intermittently creeping up to 5. Eureka!

Unfortunately this meant emptying what was my lounge room and then transferring all the stock into there, then moving all my gear into the front room. Quite a task actually, but I'm glad to have done it. Now my connection feels much like a wired ADSL one and everything is a lot smoother now. So there'll be a lot less procrastinating on producing and publishing content from now on.

Why do I mention that Allah has blessed me with 5 bars? No, I'm not a Muslim. But Bin Laden is, and getting a 5 bar connection using a piggy-backed wireless connection seems like a miracle to me... much like Bin Laden's apparent ability to get mobile phone reception in a cave. Ever since those kind of stories started emerging a few years ago I have been left wondering just who his mobile service provider is. If it really is that good, for sure, I'd be signing up to the Jihad wireless telecommunications network without hesitation!

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